"Welch said Attorney General Eric Holder accepted Dannehy's conclusions."

Right. And who does Holder work for, who's his boss? It's Obama, isn't it? Obama could have told Holder to reject these "carefully researched" conclusions.

Obama is a right wing, conservative, REPUBLICAN ASSHOLE, who has managed, successfully, to bury every one of George W. Bush's crimes, including, but not limited to, creating, by lying to Congress and the public, a synthetic war in Iraq.

Bush has on his hands the blood of millions of Iraqi men, women and children and Obama could give a shit. So if Obama could give a shit about neoliberal, imperialistic wars created out of thin air, why should he care about the firing of these U.S. attorneys?

This is just another example, extremely compelling nature, as to why Obama is such a pathetic and immoral president -- a man who serves the momentum of U.S. based violence at home and abroad. He makes me sick.

Someone above said that Obama was an" immoral and pathetic president--"

Has he forgotten that is was the former administration's serial and prolonged ineptitudes, crimes, and mendacity that caused the problems in question? The fact that Obama doesn't want to prosecute them errs on the side of his being too nice. It's no time for niceness, man. It's time to convict Cheney.

Assistant Attorney General Ronald Welch said in a six-page letter sent Wednesday to House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers that Dannehy's investigative team could not "establish that persons knowingly made false statesments or corruptly endeavored to obstruct justice." Moreover, the evidence "did not warrant expanding the scope of the [probe] beyond the removal of Iglesias" to include eight other federal prosecutors whose dismissals were also politically motivated.

Welch said Attorney General Eric Holder accepted Dannehy's conclusions.

In an interview, Iglesias, now a member of team prosecuting cases before military commissions at Guantanamo, said he is "glad the matter is finally over."

"I'm gratified the Justice Department took the matter seriously enough to appoint an experienced corruption prosecutor to investigate," Iglesias said. "I will not second guess her findings. I hope this scandal prevents future administrations and political leaders from attempting to politicize US Attorneys."

The scandal resulted in Gonzales' resignation as well as the resignations of numerous other Justice Department (DOJ) officials. Dannehy was tasked with investigating whether Gonzales and other government officials who played a role in the firings lied to Congress and/or obstructed justice.

Two years ago, the DOJ's Office of Inspector General (OIG) and the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) issued a 356-page report on the US attorney firings that "found significant evidence that political partisan considerations were an important factor in the removal of several of the US Attorneys."

Their report concluded that Iglesias' firing was the most "controversial" and that his dismissal was "engineered" by New Mexico GOP lawmakers Sen. Pete Domenici, Congresswoman Heather Wilson and former White House political adviser Karl Rove over complaints about Iglesias' refusal to secure indictments in alleged voter fraud cases and in a public corruption case prior to the November 2006 midterm elections.

However, the watchdogs' report said they were unable to conduct a thorough investigation into the matter because "the [Bush] White House would not provide us any internal documents and e-mails relating to the removals of Iglesias or the other US Attorneys.”

“Our investigation was also hindered by the refusal of Senator Domenici and his Chief of Staff [Kyle Sampson] to agree to an interview by us," according to the OIG and OPR report. "In addition, we were not able to interview [former DOJ White House liaison] Monica Goodling, who also declined to cooperate with our investigation. As a result, important gaps remain in the facts regarding Iglesias’s removal as US Attorney."

Domenici, who testified before Dannehy's grand jury, retired from the Senate and Wilson also left Congress in 2009 after unsuccessfully seeking the Republican nomination to fill Domenici's seat, which is now held by Democratic Sen. Tom Udall.

Inspector General Glen Fine and OPR's H. Marshall Jarrett, the principal authors of the report, recommended the Justice Department launch a criminal inquiry into the firings to interview witnesses they were unable to meet with because they lacked subpoena power.

Fine said in a separate, December 2008 memo that the Justice Department's "removal of the US Attorneys and the controversy it created severely damaged the credibility of the department and raised doubts about the integrity of department prosecutive decisions.”

In his summary of Dannehy's case, Welch said she did not uncover evidence that "anyone in the [Bush] White House or [DOJ] sought to influence" Iglesias to file charges in either the public corruption or alleged voter fraud cases "in advance of the November 2006 election, or at anytime."

"While the actions of DOJ leadership were contrary to DOJ principles, they were not intended to and did not influence or in any way impede voter fraud prosecutions or a particular public corruption case," Welch added, noting that Dannehy concluded Domenici's "motive for seeking Iglesias' removals were in part politically motivated" but not criminal.

In a statement, Conyers said, "It is clear that Ms. Dannehy's determination is not an exoneration of Bush officials in the US attorney matter as there is no dispute that these firings were totally improper and that misleading testimony was given to Congress in an effort to cover them up."

"Strangely, in deciding not to prosecute, the Department nevertheless concludes that David Iglesias was fired to influence future prosecution decisions in the New Mexico US attorney's office, stating that the evidence established Iglesias was removed 'to eliminate the possibility of any future action or inaction by him,'" Conyers said. "Apparently, because the White House plotters were not trying to affect Iglesias' own decisions, but simply getting him out of the way so that a politically friendly US attorney could be appointed, DOJ felt the firing did not meet the technical requirements for an obstruction of justice case.

"Similarly, [Dannehy's investigation] does not conclude that administration officials testified truthfully to Congress on this subject," Conyers added. "Indeed, [Dannehy's probe] reaffirms DOJ's prior finding that Alberto Gonzales and Kyle Sampson made 'inaccurate and misleading' statements."

Last year, Conyers released more than 5,000 pages of documents that showed how Rove and former White House Counsel Harriet Miers played a far more deeper role in the scandal than they had let on. The documents showed Rove and Miers pushed for Iglesias' firing because he wasn't cooperating with Republican plans for indicting Democrats and their allies before the 2006 election.

But both were unable to recall key facts about their involvement in the issue.

A 12-page fact sheet summarizing the Rove and Miers' closed-door testimoney before the Judiciary Committee said Rove’s “memory appeared to be quite selective.”

Rove “did not remember basic facts such as how and when he learned that David Iglesias would be removed, whether or not he ever saw the list of US Attorneys proposed for removal, or whether he even knew which US Attorneys were on the removal list when he approved the plan,” the committee’s fact sheet states. “Similarly, Mr. Rove clearly remembered obscure details such as a conversation with a now-deceased political scientist from a University of Wisconsin subcampus about possible flaws in the Justice Department’s rejection of Wisconsin vote fraud complaints.

“While failure of recollection is always an issue in investigations, the extent of these witnesses’ failure to recall the basic facts about recent events is disturbing, and continues to obscure the full truth about the US Attorney removals.”

The committee said Miers “suffered from an extraordinary failure of recollection during her interview, stating more than 150 times that she did not recall the answer to questions about the US Attorney matter, including fundamental and memorable facts such as what she meant when she wrote that a ‘decision’ had been made to remove David Iglesias from his position in October 2005, or whether or not Karl Rove specifically asked that David Iglesias be removed when Mr. Rove called her, agitated, from New Mexico.”

According to the transcript of Miers' testimony, a "very agitated" Rove phoned her from New Mexico, apparently in September 2006, and told her that Iglesias was "a serious problem and he wanted something done about it."

At the time of the phone call, Rove had just met with New Mexico Republican Party officials angry at Iglesias, who was refusing to proceed with voter fraud cases because he felt the evidence was weak and because pre-election indictments would violate DOJ guidelines.

Miers said she responded to Rove's call by getting on the phone to Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty and passing along the message that Rove "is getting lots of complaints." Miers added, "It was a problem." About one month later, Iglesias was added to the list of US attorneys to be removed.

"Well", to quote Raygun, why not simply let Cheney/Bush investigate themselves; then write their own Triumphant executive AUTOBIOGRAPHY?

Of course Dannehy and Welch, et al., covered up the criminal obstruction of justice of the Bush crime family and its cohorts in crime, as we knew they probably would. We know darn well that there WAS in actuality sufficient evidence for criminal charges, but that such criminals are not held accountable in the "United National Security Militarized Police State(s)", the "United States of Amerika", or the "United Socialist States of America", etc. The Bush crime family was absolved of its treason way back in the beginning when they supported the Third Reich (though G.W. Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush, et al.), so of course today's "Fourth Reich" treason and many other crimes of the Bush crime family, et al., is also absolved. "Welcome" to the Fourth Reich.

There was plenty of evidence, if they would have looked for it. Like someone can simply refuse to cooperate with a criminal investigation! They let them get away. They never planned to go after any of the Bush criminals. Obama always said so. He thinks there is nothing wrong with any crime, as long as a Republican commits it.

This is one of the most disgusting things about the Obama presidency. Obama thinks he has the right to decide which laws to enforce and which criminals to prosecute. I this area, there is no difference between Obama and Bush, Cheney, Gonzalez, and Ashcroft. Obama always lets the most important criminals get away with it when they commit the worst crimes, yet so many thousands go to jail every year for petty crimes. That is his idea of justice.

Democrats like Obama and Pelosi and most Democrats nowadays are such wimps, completely terrified to do what is right. It seems the terrorists have won. And I mean the terrorist of the GOP, Faux News, and the entire right-wing propaganda corporate whore machine. I don't know what is worse, the fact that those people are ruining this country and devastating life on earth, or the fact that most Democrats are content to sit on their asses watching it happen, often cheering them on and helping them.

OK, Liced-Christ, I guess you couldn't resist going to the Dark Side; couldn't keep that blue pill outa your mouth. It's Holder's problem, hello . . . No, the US Justice System doesn't work; but if the lying, greedy GOP ever - EVER - gets in power again, I'm joining the frikkin' underground. You WANT the Bad Guys to take over America? Or are you just too lazy to fight them?

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